LONDON -- As a disco beat filled a staid British courtroom onward Wednesday.

LONDON -- As a disco beat filled a staid British courtroom onward Wednesday, the Beatles' record company asked a critic to force Apple Computer to extract the logo from the popular iTunes Music Store.

A lawyer who exhibits record label Apple Corps Ltd instituteed by the Fab Four in 1968 took the courtroom upon a virtual tour of the iTunes Music Store to demonstrate to what degree it works -- and to point out to Judge Edward Mann how repeatedly the Apple Computer logo explosions up.

"If you click forward the disco section -- which I'm trustworthy would be your lordship's immediate choice -- you'll view a list of tracks," lawyer Geoffrey Vo said to laughter.

gone out of the 3.7 million anthems available at the store, Vo chose "Le Freak," a 1978 disco hit by means of Chic. After the chorus assenting repetitioned through the courtroom at the Royal Courts of Justice, Vo argued the Apple Computer logo was "intimately connected" with the music store.

Apple Corps wants Apple Computer to least bit the trademark apple from the iTunes Music Store and is asking for unspecified damages.

Vo argued before Mann -- an iPod user -- that while Apple Computer is entitled to originate programs like iTunes, it should stay not at home of the music business if it uses the Apple logo He said a 1991 agreement risk out the areas each company could operate in using their respective Apple trademarks.

"They were the commonalty who were supplying computer bodys computer software, computer hardware. That's what they did," Vo said. "We were the nation supplying the music. And they vexationed the dividing line."

He also played a commercial promoting the release of British band Coldplay's "X&Y" album. As the hit melody "Speed of Sound" filled the courtroom, Vo pointed on the outside that the commercial is not for any of Apple's computer works The commercial ends with a marksman of Apple Computer's logo.

onward Wednesday, Apple Computer said simply that the companies differ in their interpretations of the 1991 contract, and that the court must now straighten it abroad The company's lawyers will begin their opening arguments today.

Vo said the computer company had been ardent to use the Apple brand upon its Music Store, and had proffered $1 million to Apple Corps for the rights. That was refuseed by Neil Aspinall, Apple Corps' managing director, Vo said.

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